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I resigned from Anthropic today

And we really only have OpenAI’s word for it that they had no access to their own weights there and didn’t exfiltrate them. No one who knows that incident could suggest it was beyond its capabilities to do that. And we would have never heard about any of this if it wasn’t investigated by an external party (hugging face). It may have happened elsewhere already. It’s not likely to have, but it is very possible this was our last “free” warning.

I resigned from Anthropic today

And we really only have OpenAI’s word for it that they had no access to their own weights there and didn’t exfiltrate them. No one who knows that incident could suggest it was beyond its capabilities to do that. And we would have never heard about any of this if it wasn’t investigated by an external party (hugging face). It may have happened elsewhere already. It’s not likely to have, but it is very possible this was our last “free” warning.

Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?

Without seeing the full correspondence it’s hard to evaluate for sure, but parent linked to a tweet from the OpenAI employee at the center of the controversy, that’s a primary source you can read and evaluate yourself Personally I don’t find the tweet a satisfactory explanation of their behavior, it seems like a lot of deflection without directly responding to the specific claims of front-running, and the screen cap of the correspondence doesn’t include all the relevant context. If there was really no bad behavior, why not post the whole thing?

What will our economic future look like?

This is a spherical cow model. Here are their stated assumptions: • Production involves a combination of tasks, where each task is performed by labor or by capital. The final goods market is perfectly competitive. • Labor is supplied exogenously while capital is supplied along an upward-sloping schedule. • There are two groups of occupations, of which only the cognitive group is exposed to AI. For the amount of money Anthropic can spend on this, that's a very lame model. The "two groups of occupations" assumption is so naive as to be embarrassing. The assumption that only the "cognitive group" is exposed to AI is way too optimistic. We're close to automating drivers out of existence, and there's political pushback against that. Logistics is about half automated now and the rest is only a …

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

Not unless you are anthropic/openai, or run your own models.

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

Not unless you are anthropic/openai, or run your own models.

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

Though credit where its due, Google did release open-weight AI models like Gemma but still hides its flagships hidden. The closest we got to open weights was during the Anthropic hack few months ago.

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

> the case is undecided and about an entirely different kind of IP theft The guy mocked accessing his prior employer's circuit diagrams and was protected by OpenAI until Apple filed suit. Tabula rasa , sure, we need more evidence. But ignoring the priors should at least be explicitly acknowledged.

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

I am sure every input send to openai is prechecked by a dumb model and then send to another one. They heavily tweak this to improve performance.

Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'

Those phrases often imply that they were fired or asked to resign - although the deniability can be useful, which is why they’re so often used. As a recent example, Fidji Simo went on leave from her role at OpenAI several months before leaving. Although I don’t know for sure, I would suppose that she was essentially fired when she went on leave, and the subsequent success of Codex after she went on leave confirmed the decision to fire her. It’s possible that, if Codex hadn’t been a success, she might have been brought back, so putting her on leave was useful for optionality.

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

Yeah, with GPT 6 even OpenAI doesn't know what it's thinking.

I resigned from Anthropic today

I think this topic is so contentious because people are not fully appreciating how absolutely weird these things are. To me this inscrutable weirdness, combined with their superhuman capabilities and rapid integration into multiple walks of life is the threat that people are vaguely worried about but cannot enunciate, because it's just so diffuse and multi-dimensional. In fact, I suspect that "Alien Intelligence" article from the other day is actually a preemptive "we're doing something about it" PR play from OpenAI. AI acts in ways that seem natural to us because it has been RLHF'd to death, but if you look holistically into what we know about them, alarm bells should go off. Off the top of my head: * They are superhumanly capable in some ways. They can casually solve long-standing unsol…

I resigned from Anthropic today

We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI.

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

I feel much the same way. Actions speak louder than words, and when was the last time that OpenAI published open weight LLMs? Anthropic?

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

I feel much the same way. Actions speak louder than words, and when was the last time that OpenAI published open weight LLMs? Anthropic?

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

Every US frontier lab trained on the entire internet without asking or attributing Reddit, books, GitHub, Wikipedia and they called it fair use. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google all did this. They unethically ingested the output of every human who ever typed into a browser, paid nobody (oh did I forget about art and art styles being stolen as well without attribution?) and built trillion dollar companies. But Now it's "industrial-scale theft" requiring a joint NSA/FBI/CISA advisory. The hypocrisy. Whatever we do is fair use. Whatever you do is a federal case. Chinese AI firms in my opinion are much better, DeepSeek publishes weights, Qwen publishes weights, GLM is a godsend (imho). You can download them, audit them, run them locally all while paying lesser than American AI. The "shady"…

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

Every US frontier lab trained on the entire internet without asking or attributing Reddit, books, GitHub, Wikipedia and they called it fair use. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google all did this. They unethically ingested the output of every human who ever typed into a browser, paid nobody (oh did I forget about art and art styles being stolen as well without attribution?) and built trillion dollar companies. But Now it's "industrial-scale theft" requiring a joint NSA/FBI/CISA advisory. The hypocrisy. Whatever we do is fair use. Whatever you do is a federal case. Chinese AI firms in my opinion are much better, DeepSeek publishes weights, Qwen publishes weights, GLM is a godsend (imho). You can download them, audit them, run them locally all while paying lesser than American AI. The "shady"…

OpenAI claims maths breakthrough on a famed 'Millennium Problem'

My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8

I don't have access to the exact agent OpenAI used, and I certainly don't have access to the enormous amount of tokens that were used. That being said, I doubt there was some advanced prompting technique going on here. We've seen AI proofs with the prompts attached, and it's pretty basic stuff like "don't give up".

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

API or consumer subscription? And did he share drafts of the work with anyone who fed it back in on a consumer subscription without disabling training? I have reason to believe OpenAI doesn't respect training opt outs, but there is a good chance they let something get through without an opt-out too.